tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681613693877584295.post7546331611097678634..comments2023-12-17T16:36:34.366-05:00Comments on Reversing the Polarity: Doctor Who: The Time MeddlerJLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235093202956238922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681613693877584295.post-29902018911623044672014-12-14T22:20:37.509-05:002014-12-14T22:20:37.509-05:001.) That's a good point- I didn't think of...1.) That's a good point- I didn't think of that. It certainly makes more sense than the monastery having prison cells. <br /><br />2.) Heh, I don't buy that, either.<br /><br />3.) That's funny! I don't remember that. <br /><br />4.) Yes! That does happen in this episode. And then the Meddling Monk sort of brags that HIS TARDIS is a mark 4. I was thinking, uh, the Doctor's is a type 40...except like you said, they hadn't really sorted that out yet- not that they ever let continuity get in the way of anything. And yep, it's way more fun to think up explanations. :)JLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235093202956238922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681613693877584295.post-47122664728957723822014-12-14T18:47:44.701-05:002014-12-14T18:47:44.701-05:001.) JL:" He ends up at the monastery, and the...1.) JL:" He ends up at the monastery, and the Meddling Monk, who overheard the TARDIS crew talking about the TARDIS, captures the Doctor and locks him in a cell. Why does a monastery have jail cells? I don't know."<br /><br />I wonder if that was a misreading of the script. The living spaces in monasteries are properly known as monastic cells, and I wonder if the director was unfamiliar with the term and just assumed they meant *prison* cells.<br /><br />2.) The old Doctor Who RPG from the 80s speculated that the Meddling Monk was an earlier incarnation of the Master, but even at 12 years old, I wasn't buying that.<br /><br />3.) "Shada" has a throwaway reference to another renegade Time Lord, the Interfering Nun. That always makes me laugh. <br /><br />4.) I looked up the Meddling Monk on the Tardis data core (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Monk), and it says "After seeing the Monk's TARDIS, the First Doctor estimated that it and its owner were from about fifty years in the Doctor's own future."<br /><br />Does that happen in this episode? That's pretty interesting, because the Doctor always returned into Gallifrey in chronological order. Maybe he meant that the Monk's TARDIS was a model manufactured fifty years after the Doctor's own type 40, which was an old model even at the time the Doctor stole it. (Well, what it really means is that they hadn't yet codified the mythology of the show, but it's more fun to come up with Watsonian answers.)Jugularjoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768939120752611597noreply@blogger.com